Power Move is Ownership Media Outlets

[ProfD]

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-could-take-over-tiktok-us-business-investors-oracle-ellison-2025-9

 

The current administration facilitated the $14 billion dollar sale of TikTok to a group of investors including Oracle and billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Michael Dell among others.

 

Oracle, owned by billionaire Larry Ellison will own a huge stake in TikTok. He also just bought Paramount. That means he has control over them.
 

The best way to control information and content is to own it. Instead of starting a network or social media company or app, just buy one of the most popular existing companies.

 

It would be awesome if Black folks could have made such power moves.

[Pioneer1]

I thought TikTok was supposedly owned by China?

Where did all of this talk about TikTok being a source of Chinese propaganda come from that these Republicans were crying about a little while back?

Although we do need to own our own social media platforms, I don't think we should ignore the grass while focusing on the flowers.
We need to make sure we own national television stations, radios, and news papers!

Social media is a good way to reach SOME people, but a lot of people....older and a surprising number of younger people....still love to sit back on the couch and relax and WATCH television or LISTEN to the radio.
The Civil Rights and Black Power Movements were carried largely by Black owned news papers and radio stations and later on in the 70s and 80s we started buying television stations.
We should have kept them.

[Troy]

2 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Social media is a good way to reach SOME people...

 

Right, I actively avoid consuming content on social for reasons I can go on with all day long.  So it does not matter to me who owns it as I don't use it.  

 

If Black folks owned it, and it operated the same way, I still would not use it.

 

The move for Black people is not to embrace the same f'ed systems greedy white boys use to exploit the populace (winking at Richard).  We desperately need to do things that will serve us.  This is true to the nation in general.

 

[ProfD]

Black folks need to own whatever forms of technology that reaches the most people quickly.

 

Black folks don't have to use technology  in the negative ways that greedy people do.  we definitely need it.

 

White folks control power, money and technology. Black folks are dependent and defenseless. Not a great position.

[Troy]

26 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Black folks need to own whatever forms of technology that reaches the most people quickly.

 

The reason that technology reaches people quickly (goes viral) is that it is designed to do just that.  I argue that content used to do that does not serve us.

 

If you do not use the technology the way they do no one besides you and me will use it.  Think BET. 

 

32 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Black folks are dependent and defenseless. Not a great position.

 

It is not just us man.  Most of the country is in this predicament.  Of course, when American catches a cold... always applies.